The Corus application to shut down 44 Global TV transmitters received only 11 interventions, four of which were from TV production associations discussing how Corus should reallocate its tangible benefits funding. One intervention from professor Steven James May of Humber College says he doesn’t want to receive funding from cutting services.

Netflix’s higher prices are because of things like paying $100 million to have exclusive streaming rights to the sitcom Friends for one year. That’s at least five times how much all the actors in the series were paid over seven years to make the series — and those were all-time record salaries. Correction: I did my math wrong, based on $1 million a season when it was $1 million an episode per cast member. It’s still a lot of money when you think of how much they were paid though.

Speaking of budgets, during the CRTC’s OMNI hearings, Sam Norouzi of Montreal’s ICI (CFHD-DT) said his station received $88,000 in advertising from ad agencies last year, of which 80% came from provincial government agencies. This was part of a larger point about the value of letting his independent producers sell their own ads, using that money to finance their shows.

CTV has launched its free ad-supported retro TV and movie collections, which they’re calling Throwback and CTV Movies. The TV collection includes classic hits like Mad About You and … why bother watching anything else when you can watch Mad About You? Fine: Community, Dawson’s Creek, Designing Women, The Facts of Life, The Larry Sanders Show and Rescue Me are also on the list. Movies include Groundhog Day, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Steel Magnolias, Philadelphia, Men in Black and three Spider-Man movies. Ads for both types of content are delivered the same places you’d expect in conventional TV, and come in groups of 2-3 ads of 15-30 seconds.

Videotron has added QUB Radio to its Illico TV system, and in case it wasn’t obvious how much Quebecor wants to push this thing, it’s assigned three channels to it, including Channel 1. Others are 599 (among the radio stations) and 601 (for those cruising the HD channels).

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Gravité Média has decided to end publication of The Gleaner, a community paper serving southwestern Quebec that previous owner Transcontinental had already gutted, emptying its Huntingdon offices and turning it into an insert into a French newspaper. But the company has offered to give The Gleaner to the community, and members of that community are working on a plan to revive it.

Elias Makos is leaving City Montreal, five years after being one of its first employees. His last day is Friday. He hasn’t said where he’s going, but expect an announcement soon.

Tarah Schwartz is leaving CTV Montreal. She tells Bill Brownstein she made the decision so she can spend more time with her family. And that’s not a euphemism. Her job at CTV involves working nights and weekends and with her son starting Grade 1 she wants a regular 9-to-5 job.

Play-by-play announcer Bob Cole, who was supposed to call 10 games on Hockey Night in Canada over the first half of this season before retiring, has had his contract extended for another six games. His final broadcast will be the season finale between the Canadiens and Maple Leafs on April 6.

CBC’s Heather Conway, meanwhile, gives an exit interview to Metro Morning, talking about the CBC versus private media, the economics of television and workplace culture after the Jian Ghomeshi incident.

Netflix’s higher prices are because of things like paying $100 million to have exclusive streaming rights to the sitcom Friends for one year. That’s at least five times how much all the actors in the series were paid over seven years to make the series — and those were all-time record salaries.

The stars of Friends made 1 million per episode during the final seasons, so like 132 million per season